Home-to-School Partnership

Our Lower School experience is also based on a home-to-school partnership that invites parents to be involved in the journey with their child. Workshops and seminars equip parents with the resources they need to feel engaged in their child’s Ridley experience.

Volunteer committees provide parents with opportunities to help us develop and evolve the direction of Lower School education, and a wide range of on-campus activities enrich family life.

With more than 700 students from 50+ countries, the largest boarding programme in Ontario and the third largest in Canada, Ridley College is a truly international, co-educational, day and boarding school of the world that prepares students for the world. It has provided enriching learning and life-shaping experiences focused on the arts, academics, and athletics since 1889. Ridley’s Lower School offers JK-Grade 8, its Upper School consists of Grade 9-PG, and Ridley graduates attend some of the top universities and colleges around the world. Ridley is the only independent boarding school in Canada and one of only three in North America authorized to offer the International Baccalaureate (IB) continuum programme.